Hostel 2? Considering I pretty much thought Hostel sucked I'll pass. Casual horror film fans might have found it shocking but it was far from satisfying to gorehounds. You get treated to about 50 minutes of Eurotrip with annoying characters (Tarantino to Roth: "Dude, this is taking forever to get going, better put a lot of boobage in there or people will fall asleep"), you immediately know (train scene) who the "villain" will be. The plot was predictable, there was little to no suspense, no creepy atmosphere to back up the so-called shocking scenes (bunch of big bald dudes in suits standing around black cars in broad daylight next to semi-abandonned buildings = not creepy), the whole escape sequence (hmmm hide behind this corner, and then this corner, and then behind this car, no wait, gotta go save the japanese girl...) was ridiculous, and lo and behold, the 3 people I need to kill magically appear behind a truck all bunched up together so I can run them over! Arggggggh! Well, there's two things I enjoyed which most people probably would not even notice: The cameo appearance by the Japanese master of disturbing and twisted horror Takachi Miike, and the hommage to Sion Sono's "Suicide Club" (the japanese girl's suicide in front of the train).
If you're not going to create suspense and a creepy atmosphere, then you better make darn sure that there will be a big payoff in the gore department. To me, Hostel just didn't deliver. Good premise, bad execution. And I had hope for Roth because I liked Cabin Fever in a campy "not taking myself seriously" sort of way. In the same "survival horror" genre, "High Tension" and even "Wolf Creek" are miles better than Hostel.
And again, go see Neil Marshall's "The Descent" for a creepy, brutal, and highly effective horror film.
